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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: ASAIO J. 2016 Jan-Feb;62(1):92–99. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000000300

Figure 6.

Figure 6

(A) Contours of temperature in tissue surrounding the subcutaneous region of the catheter (see Figure 1C) with infusate temperature of 51°C and flowrate of 40ml/min. (B) Temperature profile along horizontal line in (A) for different inlet temperatures at 40ml/min. Note that for all inlet temperatures the surrounding tissue falls below 37°C around 2cm radially from the catheter. (C) Average outer surface temperature for the subcutaneous region of the catheter for different inlet temperatures at 40ml/min. Error bars represent range of surface temperatures. Dotted, dashed and solid lines represent physiologic temperature (37°C), bacterial inhibition temperature (45°C), and the thermal injury temperature (50°C).